Planorbidae
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planorbidae-287-7687246
title:
Planorbidae
text:
Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn snails contains iron-based hemoglobin instead of copper-based hemocyanin. As a result, planorbids are able to breathe oxygen more efficiently than other molluscs. The presence of hemoglobin gives the body a reddish colour. This is especially apparent in albino animals. Being air breathers like other
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Family of gastropods
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planorbidae
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-25T13:31:41Z
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13
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